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I recently found a forum all about perfume and got curious enough to do an inventory of what I have. I discovered that many of the others on the forum had not only more than 100; there is someone with more than a thousand!

For the purposes of the poll, include full-sized bottles only. Those usually start at 15 ml. Body mist doesn't count because of the concentration.

I think I have 3 or 4 bottles. I rarely wear scent and now that I'm approaching menopause, my sniffer is much more sensitive and it bothers me. There are a lot of even lotions that I can't take the smell of.

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After cleaning out my Dad's house, I have this advice: If you haven't used it in a year, throw it out!!!!.

I have a lot thanks to a small perfume company called possets.com--she sells 15 ml bottles of perfume oil for $10-20 each so I will usually try 5 or so out of every perfume collection she presents seasonally.

I started out with perfume oils because of Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs but something about their blends do not agree with my nose. Then I found possets and fell in love! (not affiliated but a very happy customer)

I don't care for "department store" perfumes, but for bigger companies, my favorite is Fumerie Turque by Serge Lutens. Now that is expensive -- over $100 for a bottle! My collection would be a heck of a lot smaller if I only bought fragrances like that

After a purge I now own 4 that I couldn't toss. Before the purge? Six or seven. Maybe 10-12 if you include body mist with the perfume. The 4 that I couldn't toss I kept not because I really like them but because I know they were not cheap and they were a gift. They are ok.

Unfortunately most perfumes smell alcohol-y to me. I want to consider some roll-on oil ones or a good solid perfume. However I've never seen any in the store. And dropping the money on a perfume that I've never smelled can make things expensive.

Lately I've been using toadstool shampoo and conditioner off of etsy. I love them...my hair smells great longer than the perfume lasted and they don't have an alcohol-y smell. But I don't have a collection of shampoos that will let me trade off on a whim. Same problem of not being able to smell before buying though.

Mostly I have oils like Bergamot, Lavender and sandalwood. I also have some crystals (aka as resin...I call it pitch or sap), like amber, myrrh and frankincense. I like earthy fragrances. I used to have a bottle of White Shoulders. I use scented shower gels, usually lavender and Ylang Ylang. I really love lemon verbena, too.

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I've never knitted anything I could recognize when it was finished. Actually, I've never finished anything, much to my family's relief.

I have less than 25. For me, 25 would be a lot, even including lotions and soaps. There was a time when my sister and i and our mom were all using the same shower and we counted 9 different scented soaps in there.

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How do you use a crystal perfume? Or are they softer than I am imagining?

The amber comes in a little wooden box or a little plastic bag and is like pitch from a tree but not impossibly sticky. They call it resin. It's sort of a crystallized substance. I just rub it on my wrists. I get it at the natural food store (it's not food...they just sell other interesting things, as well).My son got the frankincense and myrrh in little plastic bags at a thrift store and shared it with me.

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I've never knitted anything I could recognize when it was finished. Actually, I've never finished anything, much to my family's relief.

I only own four bottles that I know cost more than $100; three are the same fragrance house. I'm hearing about some that cost 4x that and my head is still reeling. On Tuesday I will be attending a launch party for a new line, thanks to Meetup.com. If this thread is still active I will report the details.

I put less than 25 - I have 2! They are Vera Wang's "Princess" and Avon's "Secret Fantasy".

I don't wear perfume all that much, and even then, only a quick dab on my wrists. I figured out a long time ago that having perfume on my neck or anywhere too close to my face gives me a headache. I also get headachey when there are people around who are wearing too much fragrance.

I prefer scented body wash (of which I have 5 different ones at the moment) with a body mist to match. The mist doesn't trigger my headaches. Even so, I only have coconut, vanilla, cinnamon, strawberry and mango.

I started out with perfume oils because of Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs but something about their blends do not agree with my nose. Then I found possets and fell in love! (not affiliated but a very happy customer)

I have about 30 bottle from BPAL, and really love and adore abut 10 of them. The best part for me is that they don't go bad. I could never get through a bottle of regular perfume before it started to change, plus the spray scents are, for some reason, likely to give me a mild headache after about 45 minutes.